Here's a quick example from today of why I find it such a general purpose tool Pipe in some fixed-width formatted data kubectl get pods | vd -f fixed - G

Here's a quick example from today of why I find it such a general purpose tool Pipe in some fixed-width formatted data kubectl get pods | vd -f fixed - Gives me a searchable, usable output. Press right to highlight the status column, shift-f and I get a count (+histogram) of the statuses. Three have failed. Hit enter on that row and I can see specifically which ones have failed. This takes a few seconds (I just tried and did it under 5 from running the above command). If I knew I wanted the failed ones I could have grepped or similar but I can then order by most restarts, etc. This is a tiny part of the functionality but it's an example of "there's some tabular-ish data but what's there?". Load X, histogram, filter, sort is probably 90% of my use-cases.